My son was a huge baby, tipping the scale at 9 pounds, 14 ounces when he was born.

This isn't greatly shocking, as both of his parents are gigantic people, but it is interesting that several of my less enormous friends are having newborns that enter the world at over 8 pounds.

I had thought the crop of very big babies might be due to something we were eating, perhaps additives in our food or minerals in our water.

It turns out I may have been partially right.

According to this article, Vitamin D is closely linked to baby weight.Sunlight is the normal source for Vitamin D, but in Canada (where this study was held) our milk is fortified with Vitamin D.I drank oceans of milk when I was pregnant with Nolan, but I also ate vats of chocolate and cartons of raspberries.

It might have been the chocolate, but I think I'll go with the milk theory.

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That's interesting. I don't drink milk, so I drank a fair amount of orange with the added calcium. However, I spent a lot of time outside walking and hiking while I was pregnant and my son was just over 10lbs.

I did drink a lot of 2% milk when i was pregnant with both of my boys, but my first son was only 7lbs. 10 oz., while my second weighed in at 11 lbs. 2 oz. The only differences in my pregnancies was that I was working as a cashier with my first, while i stayed at home with C during my second pregnancy. I thought that I read somewhere that standing on your feet a lot will lead to a lower birthweight baby, so maybe that's why??? sorry for the rambling... :)